Tag: Dachau concentration camp memorial
Dachau: In memory of thousands of Polish concentration camp prisoners – Dachau
Many guests have been announced for the commemoration of the 83rd anniversary of the first deportation from Poland to the Dachau concentration camp. Among them were Holocaust survivors, their relatives…
Dachau trials: A project with political explosive power – Dachau
The former contemporary history consultant and SPD city councilor Günter Heinritz once said that in addition to dealing with the history of the Dachau concentration camp, one must also examine…
Dachau: Memorial service for Israeli victims of the Olympia attack – Dachau
A service at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site is intended to commemorate the eleven Israeli victims of the 1972 Olympic attack. The service to mark the 50th anniversary of…
Dachau: Son of the concentration camp commander talks about difficult family inheritance – Dachau
Many Germans lie to themselves about the Nazi era and believe that their own ancestors were not Nazis. Ralph Schwerdt is the son of a former Dachau concentration camp commander…
Dachau: Wilm Hosenfeld’s daughter reads from diaries and letters – Dachau
The German Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld saved around 60 Poles, including many Jews such as the pianist Władysław Szpilman, from death during the Second World War. In the Dachau Church…
Holocaust commemoration: #StolenMemory in Fürstenfeldburck – Fürstenfeldbruck
A bracelet, a fountain pen or a farewell letter – the National Socialists stole all personal belongings from concentration camp prisoners. The traveling exhibition #StolenMemory helps to pass these on…
Commemoration of the Dachau death march with former concentration camp prisoners – Dachau
The clacking of the concentration camp inmates’ clogs – that’s what he had in mind when he drove along the route of the Dachau death march on his motorcycle that…
Dachau: Max Kronawitter presents documentary film about death march – Dachau
Through the Würmtal to Starnberg, via Wolfratshausen to Bad Tölz and Waakirchen – more than 10,000 prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were driven towards the Alps in the last…
Dachau concentration camp: Head of the memorial for the 77th anniversary of the liberation – Dachau
The historian Gabriele Hammermann has headed the Dachau concentration camp memorial site since 2009. On the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp by American…
Dachau: Five survivors come to the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp – Dachau
They come to Dachau from Austria, Italy, France, Israel and the Ukraine – five survivors take part in the commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau…